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2007 Christmas Stamps (Vanity)
http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2007stamps/downloadcenter.htm</em: ^ | 10-25-2007 | None

Posted on 10/25/2007 11:48:44 AM PDT by lilylangtree

The Postal Service announced the new 2007 Christmas stamp "The Madonna of the Carnation" for Catholics. Also, the USPS came out with the Christmas stamps commemorating the Muslim holiday of EID (Sep 28). Plus, USPS will release stamps recognizing Kwanzaa and Hanukkah (Oct 26). And for those in the "none of the above" category, the Holiday Knits stamps series will be available as of today.

I commend the Postal Service for its political correctness. However, as a Christian that believes in Jesus Christ, where is the Christmas stamp to represent the Christian belief?

Has our country moved so far away from its Christian foundation that we must now ask "where is our representation"?


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Do any other freepers believe that we are being slighted?
1 posted on 10/25/2007 11:48:45 AM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: lilylangtree

Jesus is a bit too politically incorrect.


2 posted on 10/25/2007 11:51:19 AM PDT by xjcsa (Defenseless enemies are fun.)
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To: lilylangtree

What? Cathlolics aren’t Christians?!


3 posted on 10/25/2007 11:51:26 AM PDT by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one BYJ movie at a time! (http://www.byj.co.kr))
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To: lilylangtree

It has become ingrained in our liberal institutions that we will pander to the false religions and intentionally ignore the Creator. Honestly, are there that many Muslims in this country, and those who are here, are they clamoring for a postage stamp?


4 posted on 10/25/2007 11:51:29 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: lilylangtree

Aren’t Catholics considered Christian?


5 posted on 10/25/2007 11:52:35 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: lilylangtree

Looks Christian to me.

6 posted on 10/25/2007 11:52:42 AM PDT by ladtx ( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
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To: lilylangtree

Correction...the Madonna stamp is “Madonna and child” - this seems to reflect a bit of a Catholic perspective, but I don’t see it as exclusively Catholic. And I’m not sure I feel the need to be validated by an organization that honors Kwanzaa and Eid.


7 posted on 10/25/2007 11:53:49 AM PDT by xjcsa (Defenseless enemies are fun.)
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To: lilylangtree
However, as a Christian that believes in Jesus Christ, where is the Christmas stamp to represent the Christian belief?

Huh? What's wrong with the stamp of Mary and Jesus? That's the type of stamp the Post Office usually uses for its religious Christmas stamp. Also, I like Luini's paintings so I'm pleased with this year's selection.

8 posted on 10/25/2007 11:53:52 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
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To: lilylangtree
Not me.
where is the Christmas stamp to represent the Christian belief?

Catholics aren't Christians?

9 posted on 10/25/2007 11:53:52 AM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: lilylangtree

I believe the stamp designers are of the opinion that the mortal mother of Jesus, having been arbitrarily elevated to the rank of co-redemptrix, is a wholly adequate and appropriate symbol of Christmas. I do not use Madonna stamps.


10 posted on 10/25/2007 11:54:01 AM PDT by Elsiejay (,)
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To: lilylangtree

....Yeah, need MORE commercialization!!!

Only two more months of:

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken


11 posted on 10/25/2007 11:54:19 AM PDT by dakine
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To: lilylangtree

Aw crap...correction again, that was from 2005, apparently. Your link is busted though.


12 posted on 10/25/2007 11:54:34 AM PDT by xjcsa (Defenseless enemies are fun.)
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“stamps recognizing Kwanzaa...”

Why is the postal service putting out a stamp for a made up holiday with no basis in anything factual and that was invented by a criminal?


13 posted on 10/25/2007 11:54:50 AM PDT by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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To: Elsiejay

I won’t use a stamp with Jesus on it unless he looks like a hippie.


14 posted on 10/25/2007 11:54:58 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: lilylangtree
I don't think "The Madonna of the Carnation" is just for Catholics. I mean, speaking as a Southern Baptist, when I look at it I feel like it is a picture depicting my religious heritage as well.


15 posted on 10/25/2007 11:55:30 AM PDT by Bluegrass Conservative
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I used to work as a USPS window clerk in an area with very few Catholics and I don’t remember any of the Protestants who wanted religious themed Christmas stamps being slighted by the Madonna stamps. They seemed quite satisfied with the stamps.
16 posted on 10/25/2007 11:55:33 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: xjcsa

http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2007stamps/downloadcenter.htm


17 posted on 10/25/2007 11:56:01 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Elsiejay

Neither do I.


18 posted on 10/25/2007 11:56:38 AM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Bogtrotter52
Why is the postal service putting out a stamp for a made up holiday with no basis in anything factual and that was invented by a criminal?

Hey, if we want to get technical, Jesus was a criminal too. : )

19 posted on 10/25/2007 11:57:05 AM PDT by Bluegrass Conservative
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What? Cathlolics aren’t Christians?!

Not to the blind nor the obtuse, apparently.

I guess some people object to a portrayal of Christ's mother to be inappropriate for a holiday that commemorates His birth. You'd think that even the blind and the obtuse would be able to understand the connection between a mother and a birth.

20 posted on 10/25/2007 11:57:41 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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